Lead DevOps Engineer
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Sep 26, 2026. First seen by Alion on Sep 13, 2026.
Job Description
What is the Opportunity?
Are you passionate about driving innovation in application development and streamlining the software delivery lifecycle? As a Lead DevOps Engineer, you will play a critical role in bridging the gap between development and operations, ensuring that our applications are built, tested, and deployed with speed, reliability, and compliance to the Enterprise security standards. You will lead efforts to enhance developer productivity, optimize build pipelines, and foster a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement across the application development lifecycle.
What will you do?
- Lead the design and development of key features for the enterprise DevOps (CI/CD) pipeline
- Consult with partner systems to develop integration strategies revolving around DevOps best practices
- Consult with Enterprise Architecture and Governance teams to review solution designs to ensure best practices are adhered to
- Enable AI Capabilities to increase Developer Productivity
- Work with product owners and key stakeholders to develop high value features that benefit the RBC Developer community
- Maintain the CI/CD pipeline: security and vulnerability management, capacity management, deployment and scaling strategies, performance and uptime, infrastructure hygiene
- Provide estimates on feature delivery, identify and determine delivery risks on key identify, and contribute to quarterly product road map planning
- Lead the developer community SIG discussions and bring in key features to the backlog
- Provide L3 Support on a rotational basis both on and off hours as on-call escalation contact
- Review contributions from the Developer community and approve PRs
What do you need to Succeed?
Must-Have
- Minimum 5 years developer experience
- Deep understanding of DevOps Principles and best practices for CI/CD, including designing at an Enterprise scale
- Experience with DevOps tools, platforms, and interfaces: Github, Github Actions, JFrog Artifactory, HashiCorp Vault, Ansible
- Proficient with Typescript, Java, Python, YAML, NPM, Maven, Gradle, Docker
- Experience with deploying to cloud platforms: OCP, Azure, AWS
Nice-to-Have
- Experience with Quality Engineering Automation Tools
- Experience with Application Security Tools for SAST, SCA, Container Image Scanning Tools
- Development and support of applications hosted on Cloud platforms
- Experience with Networking concepts
- Experience with SecOps
What’s in it for you?
We thrive on the challenge to be our best, progressive thinking to keep growing, and working together to deliver trusted advice to help our clients thrive and communities prosper. We care about each other, reaching our potential, making a difference to our communities, and achieving success that is mutual.
- A comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits, competitive compensation, commissions, and stock where applicable
- Leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities
- Ability to make a difference and lasting impact.
- Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team.
- Flexible work/life balance options
- Opportunities to do challenging work
- Opportunities for overtime
- Opportunities for on-call support rotation
Job Skills
Information Technology (IT) Infrastructure, Programming Languages, Software Change Request Management, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Software Engineering, Software Integration Engineering, Software Product Design, Software Product Technical Knowledge, Software Release Management, System Testing ToolsAdditional Job Details
Address:
RBC WATERPARK PLACE, 88 QUEENS QUAY W:TORONTOCity:
TorontoCountry:
CanadaWork hours/week:
37.5Employment Type:
Full timePlatform:
TECHNOLOGY AND OPERATIONSJob Type:
RegularPay Type:
SalariedPosted Date:
2026-08-27Application Deadline:
2026-09-17Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the application deadline date above
Our Employment Opportunities
At RBC, we are guided by living shared values of Client First, Integrity, Collaboration, Respect and Excellence and winning together as One RBC. We believe an inclusive workplace that has diverse perspectives is core to our continued growth as one of the largest and most successful banks in the world. Maintaining a workplace where our employees feel supported to perform at their best, effectively collaborate, drive innovation, and grow professionally helps to bring our Purpose to life and create value for our clients and communities. RBC strives to deliver this through policies and programs intended to foster a workplace based on respect, belonging and opportunity for all.
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